Aviva Health Insurance is calling on secondary schools to register for the Schools’ Fitness Challenge 2015. 

Ireland is a "Third World" nation when it comes to the physical sporting health of its young people, according to a leading expert in the field.

Teenagers as young as 15 and 16 are showing early signs of heart disease, new reaserch shows.

A LEADING health academic has said children’s fitness levels should be assessed at the beginning and end of each school year and given the same priority as maths and science.

Youngsters are putting themselves at risk of heart disease in later life by not exercising, medics have warned.